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GERMANY . J . G . J . Bailenstidt : Die Urwelt , oder Bevveis von dem Daseyn und untergange von roehr als einerVorwelt . The primitive World , or a Proof of the Existence and of the Destruction of more than one World previous to our own . Part the first . Archeological Dissertations . 2 nd edition . 1818 .
This work is very curious , and has excited some attention in Germany . For the sake of giving an idea of it , we will translate the heads of the chapters , as they are given in the Literary Gazette of Jena . Preface . 1 . Demonstration of the existence
and of the destruction of a world before Adam . 2 . Refutation of certain doubts and objections against the existence of this world . 3 . Men inhabited this primitive world .
4 . The Mammoth ( Elephas Primi * genius ) . 5 . Discoveries respecting this primitive world . 6 . Discovery of a large animal of this primitive world at Offleben , in the
Puchy of Brunswick , 7- The potteries of Thiede furnish abundant specimens of the animals of the primitive world . 8 . Toads found alive in the midst of stone are the produce of the primitive world . 9 . The character of the primitive world and its productions . 10 . Did Giants exist in the primitive world ? 11 . The primitive world was not entirely destroyed by the deluge . 12 . What put an end to the primitive world i Appendix . 1 . An attempt to explain , in a rational manner , the history pf the primitive world in the Bible . 2 . On the value of the Jewish chronology ; and , first , Was Adam tfre first man ? Or , on the antiquity of the human race , and on . the primitive population of the earth ,
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A work xs advertised by L . A . Kjehler , Archdeacon of Kottbus , on " Supranaturalixm and Rationalism in their common : origin , their separation and their transcendant union : a
word for tranquillizing those that know not whether they ought to believe according to knowledge or to know according to belief- " We apprehend that the English reader is no loser by this book being locked up in the German language .
The same may perhaps be said of another work in the same tongue , of which little more than the title is known to us , videl . " Scriptural Proofs that after his Resurrection , Jesus lived
27 years upon the Earth in Silence and Obscurity , and that for the Good of the Human Race : by J . A . Brbnneke . " The author rejects , of course , the fact of the Ascension . He is said
to display great learning . Messrs . Haumann aad Witting have entered the lists with him * The controversy is related in the Halle and Heidelberg magazines .
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Gesenius , the celebrated Theological Professor , of Halle , has obtained leave of his University to make a literary tour in France , Holland and England .
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There has just appeared at the National Printing-office at Madrid , a work entitled " Satirical Essays in Verse and Prose , by the licentiate Machuca , Antient Inmate of the Black-House . "
The name Machuca ( says Llorente , in the " Revue Encyclopedique" ) is a blind , and the description of " inmate of the BlackJHouse" signifies a Tenant of the Dungeons of the Inquisition The work contains fifteen satirical pieces , wholly original and very smart *
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cimens produced a dissertation " On the State of Literature amongst the Romans , froiw the Time of the First Punic War to that of Vespasian , " which was adjudged to a prize in an Academic Assembly , and received into the Annales Aeudennue Lugduno-Ba ~ tava ? , Tom . IL
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The titles alone of these chap ter * announce a very curious work .
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SPAIN . A work has been just published at Madrid by Don Jacques Jonama , on the Trial by % / ury . The constitution , restored by the Cortes in 1820 , established this invaluable institution in
principle , but it is unknown to the Spaniards in practice ; and therefore this patriotic author has endeavoured to enlighten his countrymen upon the subject .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/52/
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